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Of course, they usually change the subject as soon as they are shown the error of their ways...

Nah. They just deny that it was ever a prediction of evolution until after it was discovered. They're tricky like that.

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they found that its protein shell was similar to a bacterial virus and an animal virus.

Don't viruses need a plant or animal host in which to replicate? Since viruses are just little packages of DNA or RNA and require a living host to infest and use that host as a source for amino acids --- because viruses have no cytoplasm or way to get amino acids on their own --- and this virus shows similarity to bacterial and animal viruses --- how can a virus come before other forms of life?